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700-U
Instructions for Completing
CALIFORNIA
FORm
Form 700-U
Who Files Form 700-U?
What is a Loan?
This form must be filed by all persons employed by UC
Loans received or outstanding are reportable if they total
or CSU who have principal responsibility for a research
$500 or more from a single lender. Your community
project if the project is to be funded or supported, in whole
property interest in loans received by your spouse or
or in part, by a contract or grant (or other funds earmarked
registered domestic partner also must be reported. Loans
by the donor for a specific research project or for a specific
from commercial lending institutions made in the lender’s
researcher) from a nongovernmental entity.
regular course of business on terms available to members
of the public without regard to your official status are not
Reporting requirements are outlined in Regulation 18755.
reportable. (See Gov. Code Section 82030(a).)
This regulation provides that research funding by certain
nonprofit entities will not trigger disclosure. This regulation
What is a Gift?
is available on the FPPC website.
A gift is anything of value for which you have not provided
equal or greater consideration to the donor. A gift is
What is the Reporting Period?
reportable if its fair market value is $50 or more. In
For "initial" statements, before the final acceptance of the
addition, multiple gifts totaling $50 or more received from a
contract, grant, or gift, the filer must report investments in
reportable source must be reported.
and business positions with the sponsor as of the date that
the award is made, and income and gifts received from
It is the acceptance of a gift, not the ultimate use to which
the sponsor within the 12 months prior to the date that the
it is put, that imposes your reporting obligation. Therefore
award is made.
you must report a gift even if you never used it or if you
gave it away to another person.
For "interim" statements, the filer must submit a statement
within 30 days after the contract, grant, or gift is renewed
If the exact amount of a gift is not known, you must make a
that discloses reportable investments, income and
good faith estimate of the item’s fair market value. Listing
business positions that the filer held or received during the
the value of a gift as “over $50” or “value unknown” is not
period between the date the initial statement was filed and
adequate disclosure.
the date the project contract, grant, or gift was renewed.
Commonly reportable gifts include:
What is an Investment?
Tickets/passes to sporting or entertainment events
“Investment” means any financial interest in a business
Tickets/passes to amusement parks
entity in which you, your spouse or registered domestic
Parking passes
partner, or your dependent children have a direct, indirect,
Food, beverages, and accommodations, including those
or beneficial interest totaling $2,000 or more. Reportable
provided in direct connection with your attendance at a
investments include stocks, bonds, warrants, and options,
convention, conference, meeting, social event, meal, or
including those held in margin or brokerage accounts.
like gathering
(See Gov. Code Section 82034 and Regulation 18237.)
Rebates/discounts not made in the regular course of
What is Income?
business to members of the public without regard to official
status
“Income” means a payment received, including but not
Wedding gifts
limited to any salary, wage, advance, dividend, interest,
An honorarium received prior to filing an “initial” statement.
rent, proceeds from any sale, gift, including any gift of food
You may report an honorarium as income rather than as a
or beverage, loan forgiveness or payment of indebtedness
gift if you provided services of equal or greater value than
received by the filer, reimbursement for expenses, per
the payment received.
diem, or contribution to an insurance or pension program
Transportation and lodging
paid by any person other than an employer, and any
community property interest in income of a spouse or
Forgiveness of a loan received by you
registered domestic partner. Income also includes an
(See Gov. Code Section 82028.)
outstanding loan. Income of an individual also includes
What's New?
a pro rata share of any income of any business entity or
trust in which the individual, spouse, or registered domestic
If an individual receives a travel payment for travel
partner owns directly, indirectly, or beneficially, a 10%
occurring on or after January 1, 2016, which is reportable
interest or greater. Income includes your gross income
as a gift, he or she must disclose the travel destination.
and your community property interest in your spouse’s or
registered domestic partner’s gross income totaling $500
or more. Gross income is the total amount of income
before deducting expenses, losses, or taxes. (See Gov.
FPPC Form 700-U (2016/2017)
Code Section 82030.)
FPPC Advice Email: advice@fppc.ca.gov
FPPC Toll-Free Helpline: 866/275-3772

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